Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma: Combining Methodologies for Enhanced Results
ISBN: 9781466502017 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and Value Engineering (VE) have a proven track record of success for solving problems and improving efficiency. Depending on the situation, integrating these approaches can provide results that exceed the benefits of each individual approach. Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma: Combining Methodologies for Enhanced Results describes how to integrate these dynamic tools to achieve unprecedented improvements and break down the organizational stovepipes that can occur when different offices are assigned... Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and Value Engineering (VE) have a proven track record of success for solving problems and improv... |
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245,31 zł |
Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT
ISBN: 9781466504493 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Your customers want innovation and value, and they want it now. How can you apply Lean principles and practices throughout your enterprise to drive operational excellence, reduce costs while improving quality, enable efficient growth, and accelerate idea-to-value innovation? Shingo Prize-winning author Steve Bell and other thought leaders show you how-guiding you to more effectively align people and purpose, promote enterprise agility, and leverage transformative IT capabilities to create market-differentiating value for your customers. Combining research and insight with practical... Your customers want innovation and value, and they want it now. How can you apply Lean principles and practices throughout your enterprise to drive... |
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230,30 zł |
Amoeba Management: The Dynamic Management System for Rapid Market Response
ISBN: 9781466509498 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Especially effective in dynamic and highly competitive environments, the Amoeba Management System has received attention from the Harvard Business Review and has already been successfully adopted at more than 400 companies around the world. At the heart of this innovative management system is a business philosophy based on doing the right thing as a human being and the leadership potential of all employees. This philosophy, coupled with a simple and precise micro-divisional management and accounting system that enables the distribution of leadership and management responsibility... Especially effective in dynamic and highly competitive environments, the Amoeba Management System has received attention from the Harvard Busin... |
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250,32 zł |
The Modern Theory of the Toyota Production System: A Systems Inquiry of the World's Most Emulated and Profitable Management System
ISBN: 9781466556744 / Angielski / Twarda / 451 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Numerous books have been written about Toyota's approach to workplace improvement; however, most describe Toyota's practices as case studies or stories. Designed to aid in the implementation of Lean manufacturing, The Modern Theory of the Toyota Production System: A Systems Inquiry of the World's Most Emulated and Profitable Management System explains that your organization already has what it takes to succeed with TPS and what's probably missing is balance. Bridging the gap between implementation and theory, this text is the first of its kind to use systems theory to...Numerous books have been written about Toyota's approach to workplace improvement; however, most describe Toyota's practices as case studies or sto... |
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310,41 zł |
Healthcare at a Turning Point: A Roadmap for Change
ISBN: 9781466561526 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the furious debate around the state of healthcare in the US has led to any consensus, it's that the system should be delivering better quality for less cost than it does. The truth is that our healthcare system is a sprawling mix of competing interests in which those of the patient are valued least. Too much discussion has devolved to simplistic scapegoating, and too few comprehensive, constructive solutions have been offered. It's time for a fresh vision. In straightforward language, Healthcare at a Turning Point: A Roadmap for Change outlines a new market-based...If the furious debate around the state of healthcare in the US has led to any consensus, it's that the system should be delivering better quality f... |
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165,20 zł |
How to Outthink, Outmaneuver, and Outperform Your Competitors: Lessons from the Masters of Strategy
ISBN: 9781466565401 / Angielski / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Supplying you with a firm grasp of the roots of strategy, How to Outthink, Outmaneuver, and Outperform Your Competitors: Lessons from the Masters of Strategy explains how to develop the skills and strategies needed to compete in today's volatile marketplace. It interweaves the classic works of the masters of strategy, such as Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Mao Tse-tung, Niccolo Machiavelli, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, and other renowned strategists. The collective insights of these legendary strategists span 2,500 of combative history and have survived meticulous analysis by...Supplying you with a firm grasp of the roots of strategy, How to Outthink, Outmaneuver, and Outperform Your Competitors: Lessons from the Master... |
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200,25 zł |
Scalable Innovation: A Guide for Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and IP Professionals
ISBN: 9781466590977 / Angielski / Miękka / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title introduces a model for the innovation process helping inventors, investors, and entrepreneurs to understand the nature of opportunities and risks on the path to success. The authors analyse several landmark innovations in detail, revealing surprising and essential elements common to all of them. They give readers specific tools for quickly identifying essential elements of high value problems and proposed solutions, resulting in an accelerated innovation development and evaluation cycle.
This title introduces a model for the innovation process helping inventors, investors, and entrepreneurs to understand the nature of opportunities and...
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240,30 zł |
5s for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace
ISBN: 9781563271236 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The five pillar approach to improving workshop environments (and consequently productivity) written for shop floor workers and designed to be used in group sessions. The text outlines and discusses the five main principles (organization, orderliness, cleanliness, cleanup, and discipline) in a work
The five pillar approach to improving workshop environments (and consequently productivity) written for shop floor workers and designed to be used in ...
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150,17 zł |
Quick Response Manufacturing
ISBN: 9781563272011 / Angielski / Twarda / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developed by the author and now being employed by a number of businesses, Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is an expansion of time-based competition, aimed at a single target with the goal of reducing lead times. The key difference between QRM and other time-based programs is that QRM covers an entire organization, from the shop floor to the office, to sales and beyond. Providing guidelines for establishing a QRM enterprise, this volume builds upon kaizen, TQM, TPM, and other practice to help organizations streamline all functions of their operation. It shows how to quickly introduce...
Developed by the author and now being employed by a number of businesses, Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is an expansion of time-based competition...
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310,41 zł |
Kanban for the Shopfloor
ISBN: 9781563272691 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kanban is the name given to the inventory control card used in a pull system. The primary benefit of kanban is to reduce overproduction, the worst of the "seven deadly wastes." A true kanban system produces exactly what is ordered, when it is ordered, and in the quantities ordered. It is essentially a dynamic work order that moves with the material.
Each kanban identifies the part or subassembly unit and indicates where each one came from and where each is going. Used this way, kanban acts as a system of information that integrates your plant, connects all processes one to another, and... Kanban is the name given to the inventory control card used in a pull system. The primary benefit of kanban is to reduce overproduction, the worst of ...
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150,17 zł |
5s for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste [With CDROM]
ISBN: 9781563273186 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although office and administrative activities are usually 60 percent of the production costs in most manufacturing organizations, these areas often get excluded during lean initiatives. To achieve lean, office activities must fully support shop floor manufacturing operations to eliminate waste. The adoption of 5S throughout all office and administrative functions is the first step to increase efficiency.
In "5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste," Tom Fabrizio and Don Tapping bring the concepts of the 5S System -- effective tools for the elimination of waste on the... Although office and administrative activities are usually 60 percent of the production costs in most manufacturing organizations, these areas often ge...
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190,23 zł |
Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit [With CD-ROM]
ISBN: 9781563273421 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award
At the heart of Lean and Six Sigma is the same, unique business operating system: hoshin kanri. It is a method of strategic planning and a tool for managing complex projects, a quality operating system geared to ensuring that organizations faithfully translate the voice of the customer into new products, and a business operating system that ensures reliable profit growth. The true power of hoshin kanri, however, is two-fold -- it is a superior organizational learning method as well as a competitive... Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award
At the heart of Lean and Six Sigma is the same, unique busines... |
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310,41 zł |
Production Line Efficiency: A Comprehensive Guide for Managers
ISBN: 9781606491553 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers the area of un-paced and unbalanced production lines. You will find an up-to-date discussion of how designing these lines can be made more efficient by taking advantage of inherent imbalance-for example, operators who work at different speeds-a concept that has traditionally been seen as an obstacle to efficient production. A series of experiments are presented to illustrate the issues involved in improving performance through production line imbalance.
This book covers the area of un-paced and unbalanced production lines. You will find an up-to-date discussion of how designing these lines can be made...
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91,20 zł |
The Power of Business Process Improvement: The Workbook
ISBN: 9780976042839 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you are baffled by why your company makes the same errors, would like to focus your employees' limited time on more valuable work, struggle to resolve an issue you know little about, or make sense of overwhelming new responsibilities-the answer to all of these common challenges, and many more, is business process improvement (BPI). The Power of Business Process Improvement: The Workbook complements the author's popular book, The Power of Business Process Improvement, published by the American Management Association (AMA). In The Workbook, Susan Page offers a streamlined approach to BPI by...
If you are baffled by why your company makes the same errors, would like to focus your employees' limited time on more valuable work, struggle to reso...
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103,65 zł |
Cumulative Sum Charts and Charting for Quality Improvement
ISBN: 9781461272458 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cumulative sum (CUSUM) control charting is a valuable tool for detecting and diagnosing persistent shifts in series of readings. It is used in traditional statistical process control (SPC) settings such as manufacturing, but is also effective in settings as diverse as personnel management, econometrics, and conventional data analysis. It is an essential tool for the quality professional. This book covers CUSUMs from an application-oriented viewpoint, while also providing the essential theoretical underpinning. It is accessible to anyone with a basic statistical training, and is aimed at...
Cumulative sum (CUSUM) control charting is a valuable tool for detecting and diagnosing persistent shifts in series of readings. It is used in traditi...
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650,86 zł |
Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Contemporary Debates
ISBN: 9781137374622 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book weighs up the consequences of introducing Quality Enhancement and Risk Management as new dimensions in Higher Education quality control on a global scale. The authors include Chief Executive Officers of Quality Agencies, policy analysts and leading scholars in Quality Evaluation and Comparative Higher Education policy analysis.
This book weighs up the consequences of introducing Quality Enhancement and Risk Management as new dimensions in Higher Education quality control on a...
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459,42 zł |
Bringing Jobs Back to the USA: Rebuilding America�s Manufacturing Through Reshoring
ISBN: 9781466557567 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A follow-up to Tim Hutzel's previous book, Keeping Your Business in the USA: Profit Globally While Operating Locally, this book tells the stories of companies that have sent their jobs outside of the USA and the negative effects this had on the quality of their products and services, employees, supply chain providers, and consumers. Bringing Jobs Back to the USA: Rebuilding America's Manufacturing Through Reshoring reveals the motivation these companies had to offshore their jobs as well as the errors of omission they made by not understanding the true cost of offshoring....A follow-up to Tim Hutzel's previous book, Keeping Your Business in the USA: Profit Globally While Operating Locally, this book tells the st... |
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160,19 zł |
Competitive Innovation and Improvement: Statistical Design and Control
ISBN: 9781482233438 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Competitive Innovation and Improvement: Statistical Design and Control explains how to combine two widely known statistical methods--statistical design and statistical control--in a manner that can solve any business, government, or research problem quickly with sustained results. Because the problem-solving strategy employed is pure scientific method, it makes integration into any existing problem-solving or research method quite simple. The material in the book is presented in a manner that anyone can read and immediately put to use, including executives,...Competitive Innovation and Improvement: Statistical Design and Control explains how to combine two widely known statistical... |
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300,39 zł |
Building Network Capabilities in Turbulent Competitive Environments: Business Success Stories from the Brics
ISBN: 9781466515758 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) are among the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world. The enormous size of the customer base in these emerging markets is the strategic concern of global business firms. Successful market performance in these markets requires sound understanding of dynamic environmental factors and timely investment of appropriate resources. This book presents strategies for recognizing the challenges and optimizing the opportunities for building network capabilities and competitive advantage within the context of these emerging markets. ...Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) are among the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world. The enormous size of the customer base in... |
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375,51 zł |
Six SIGMA for Managers, Second Edition (Briefcase Books Series)
ISBN: 9780071838634 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unlock new levels of quality, performance, customer service, and profits Written specifically for managers with little or no experience on the subject, Six Sigma for Managers, Second Edition, provides step-by-step guidance and examples for implementing a Six Sigma initiative. Written specifically for today's busy manager, Briefcase Books feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step by step through everyday workplace situations.
Unlock new levels of quality, performance, customer service, and profits Written specifically for managers with little or no experien... |
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99,54 zł |